[wplug] Could not log into the original home directory after installation

[Deliang Shi]

You are absolutely right. I used "chown -R user2:user2 /home/home/user2" 
 and met some permission problems. And I can log in as the user2, 
 though a lot errors jumped out. Some said the configuration is not working 
 properly. And the windows like in a falsesafe system. I will try your other 
 suggestions later and let you know what happened. Again, thanks for the 
 valued information.
 
 Deliang

Bill Moran <wmoran at potentialtech.com> wrote: Deliang Shi  wrote:

> Thanks for the quick reply and I found my lines are really too
>  long:)
>  
>  They are not mounted in the same place. In fact I have 
>  different user name for individual home directory. 
>  
>  new      user1 /home/user1    
>  original user2 /home/home/user2 
>  
>  user1 is created during this installation and user2 is from 
>  original version(I am not sure if it is related to NIS/NFS).From
>  the users and groups adminstation window, I can find user1, but 
>  not user2.

Did you overwrite your password database when you "upgraded"?
If so, you'll need to create a new user2 user.  Once you've
done that, do a "chown -R user2:user2 /home/home/user2" to
ensure permissions are correct.

If permissions aren't correct, RedHat may give you grief about
setting that user's home directory to a location that is unwriteable
by that user (I don't remember what RH does).  If that's the case,
you'll need to create a temp home directory, then change ownership,
then change the home directory.

Look at the man page for "vipw" as an example.  as well as "man 5 passwd".
I'm not sure how the GUI user admin program does this

>  
>  By log in as user1, I can access both /home/user1 and /home/home/user2
>  
>  I don't know how to log in as user2.
>  
>  Deliang
>  
> 
> Bill Moran  wrote: Deliang Shi  wrote:
> 
> > Linux is installed in my notebook, root is /dev/hdc3 and home directory is
> > /dev/hdc6.  After I format /dev/hdc3 and upgrade from FC1 to FC3, another
> > home directory is created on /dev/hdc3  and I can only log into this home
> > directory. I couldn't log into the original home directory on /dev/hdc6.
> > Both /dev/hdc3 and /dev/hdc6 are mounted.
> 
> (please wrap your lines around 72 chars or so)
> 
> Are they both mounted on the same place?  What does "mount" say?
> 
> If they're both mounted in the same place, then one will "overlay" the
> other (hide it).  So the trick will be to keep the second one from
> mounting.
> 
> -- 
> Bill Moran
> Potential Technologies
> http://www.potentialtech.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Deliang Shi
> University of Pittsburgh
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> 3700 O'Hara Street
> Pittsburgh PA 15261
> 
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-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com


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